Ex Parte Proctor’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1979
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte Weissinger · Griffin v. Proctor · George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams · Steele v. Steele's Adm'r · Savage v. Savage
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . . though one having a legal estate in fee in land has the constructive possession required to maintain such a suit (action under Code 1940, Title 7, § 1109), this is not the case when actual possession is in another, not in relation of privity with him. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams, 157 Ala. 73 , 47 So. 202 ; Brunson v. Bailey, 245 Ala. 102 , 16 So.2d 9 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Rucker
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.